Studies in Heroic Virtue
Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 276 g
ISBN: 978-0-333-44161-9
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.
It is widely assumed today that heroism is obsolete as an ideal, that heroic virtue is a contradiction in terms, and that war literature must be anti-war by definition. The author argues that the theoretical foundations of these assumptions are inadequate and do not fit the literary facts.
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The subaltern as hero - Kipling and frontier war; the intellectual as hero - Lawrence of Arabia; the common man as hero - literature of the Western Front; the Christian as hero - Waugh's "Sword of Honour"; the spy as hero - Le Carre and the Cold War; Epilogue - on realism and the heroic.
